MEDFORO MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORO. OREGON
WEDNESDAY. AUGUST 7. 1M3
VACATIONING ROYALTY Looking like collected along the beach on Kasashima Is
any other tourists, casually-attired Emperor land, off Hayama. The imperial couple were
Hirohito and his wife discuss the shells they vacationing at the imperial villa at Hayama.
(UPI)
Nordsfrom's Buys
Apparel Firm Stock
Portland -IUPD- Nordstrom's
Inc., of Portland and Seattle,
has announced purchase of
nil the capital stock of Best's
Apparel Inc.
The announcement was
made Tuesday by Elmer J.
Nordstrom, Everett Nord
strom and Lloyd W. Nord
Elrom, owners of the shoe
store firm.
The announcement said that
Best's Apparel stores in Port
land and Seattle would be op
erated as a division of Nord
stroms Inc., and that Peter
Best would continue as vice
president and general mana
ger of Best's.
The amount involved in the
purchase was not disclosed.
Money, Candy Taken
From Service Station
A service station at 1303
North Riverside ave. was
broken into late Sunday or
early Monday and an unde
termined quantity of money
and candy was taken.
According to police reports,
entry to the station was gain
ed by breaking out the front
window with a rock. No other
damage was reported.
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PROGRESS REPORT ASKED - Labor Secretary Willard
Wrrtz, right, chats with Rep. Orcn Harris (D-Ark.) prior to
appearing before the House Commerce Committee. Wirtz
was called by the committee to outline whether any progress
is being made in renewed negotiations between the railroads
and the rail unions. (UPI)
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Small Wottd
Around Us
By LYNN M. WATKINS
(Rejiittr and Tiibunt
Syndic.! .63)
Why Doe. Gras Stand Up I
Again After It ! Stepptd On?
Without a thougnt as to me
result, you step on the grass
in your yard, forcing it down.
Heavy rains pound your gar
den; plants bend before the
pressure of the rain. A neavy
limb, some other object de
presses the garden plants,
bending them, often laying
them flat. Blustery winds
come, the plants bend. An ani
mal with heavy feel, a blun
dering cow walks across the
Dasture. under the pressure
of each foot, the grass is flattened.
All these can be classified
as natural forces of varying
pressures. The stems, twigs, or
blades of the plants, possess
ing as they do, the flexibility
of structure, bend but do not
break. Actually what they do
is roll with the punch, the
same as the boxer in the prize
ring.
Springi Back
The force pressing them
earthward, once released, may
allow the plant to regain an
upright position by springing
back, but outside pressures
may be continued for some
length of time, then tne
springiness is gone.
Follow a cow across a pas-
lure, with every footstep the
grass is depressed, but should
the cow stop to graze, anoth
er agency must be called into
play. The same thing happens
if you place a box or a board
on the lawn and leave it there,
all the grass underneath be
comes prostrate. Remove the
object and the plants, for a
little time, remain prone.
Overcome Adversitiei
The plant, any plant, to
survive must adapt itself to
changing conditions. It must
possess the ability to over
come adversities. If it is
healthy it will. Nature a very
long time ago foresaw this
contingency, made allowances
for these natural forces, and
instilled an opposite force, a
counter action, working
against gravity and outside
pressures.
It is a fortunate thing
plants have this power, other
wise trees, plants, even the
blades of grass in the lawn
would be forever flattened,
without the power to right
themselves. For forces are con
stantly at work, bending,
pushing, forcing plants to
bow their heads against a
superior force.
ForcM of Gravity
A growing plant must al
ways contend with the down
ward pull of gravity; to grow
upward - it must overcome
this force. It must have a
power to resist, and that we
call growth. Bend or force
the plant downward until it
is prone, and release It, it
will attempt to spring back
but held there it exerts an-
SOME FRIEND
Kansas City, Mo.-flJPD-Last
December, Edwin L. Edison
of nearby Lake Lotawana
loaned his oil company credit
card to a man he thought
was a friend. Since then, Edi
son reported today, his credit
card bill has totaled $1,159.
other force that is somewhat
mysterious.
This power of a plant to
right itself, and regain an
upright position, is called
"geotropism," to some degree
it is present in all living
plants, as well as in some
animals. Geotropism can be
of two kinds, positive and
negative, it is oriented with
respect to gravitation, as the
direction of growth of plants
or the ability of some animals
to avoid an upside down posi
tion in the air.
Due to geotropism you just
can t keep a good plant down;
it may be down today but,
if it continues to live, it will
be upright tomorrow.
Upward Trend Noted
In Sale of Bonds
"Local and state sales of
U.S. Savings Bonds are con
tinuing their upward trend
which commenced the first of
the year," Jackson County
Savings Bonds Chairman Mor
ris B. Leonard said today
when announcing July sales
of bonds in the state totaled
$3,140,944.
He compared this with sales
of $2,702,306 for the same
month a year ago.
"This brings purchases of
bonds in the state to $21,433,
202 for the January-July pe
riod of 1963 compared to
$19,662,363 during the same
months last year. Locally,
county residents purchased
$57,418 worth of savings
bonds to help the state reach
its record July sales mark,"
he added. ,
Institute Planned On Juvenile Court
a n
Eugene-Several outstanding
men in the field of juvenile
correction will participate in
the sixth annual Juvenile
Court Summer Institute Aug.
12-16 at the University of
Oregon.
The workshop, co-sponsored
by the Oregon Juvenile Court
Judges association and the
university, is expected to at
tract about 125 juvenile court
judges, probation officers and
counselors, law enforcement
personnel, social workers,
high school counselors and
graduate students from Ore
gon, Washington and Idaho.
Speakers will be Dr. Gor
don Higginson, psychologist
I at the Delauney Memorial
Clinic in Portland; Dr. Rich
ard Jarvi, Seattle psychia
trist; Dr. Delbert Elliott, so
ciologist at San Diego State
college; and Dr. Frank Har
tung, sociologist at Wayne
State university.
Workshop leaders will be
Jack Ellis, delinquency pre
vention consultant for thrCe
partment of Institutions, Siata
of Washington; Don A. 'filler,
director of the Ch'Jdren's
Farm Home at CorvaL'jU; Stan
Huittert, ju venue taw enforce-
ment consultant lor the De
partment of Institutions. State
of Washington; Al. Green, di
rector of the Multnomah
County Juvenile, Court and
Home, Portland; and Judge
William S. Fori, Crrcuit Court
Judge for Laie county.
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